Photos on the Wikmedia Commons taken during India's second and third expeditions to #Antarctica, including those of the Dakshin Gangotri, India's first research station on the continent. Many thanks to Col Pavan Nair for his generosity and for responding to my request to donate these.
On polarportal.org (http://polarportal.dk/en/about-polar-portal/), Danish research institutions display the results of their monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet and sea-ice in the Arctic.
...since starting @ClimateMigration yesterday, the vast majority of Followers are from outside the US. Understand this is not a fun subject, but the disparity in attention to this topic is pretty striking.
So, it is possible for a group to make the collective decision to leave Twitter. Scientists "suffering insults and mass-spam are abandoning Twitter," and setting up shop on Mastodon.
"Glaciologist @Ruth_Mottram had more than 10,000 followers on Twitter but left in February and joined an alternative scientists' forum powered by Mastodon."
Gearing up in Copenhagen for the OCEAN:ICE workshop on Earth Observation data - looking forward to welcoming some of Europe's top #Antarctica and #Ice#ocean#scientists
Follow the #OceanIceEO updates tomorrow #Copenhagen
"Overall, there is almost no ice over four years old remaining—it now comprises just 3 percent of the total ice cover. This is the same percentage as last year and contrasts starkly with the late 1980s when 30 to 35 percent of the Arctic Ocean’s ice was older than 4 years."
...Then, the forecast was for two decades of rapid #GlobalWarming, which we have been experiencing.
Now, with regard to the latest data the #Antarctica in the south, it shows that the so-called #DeepWaterFormation is not so much "down the drain" anymore, as the oceans and humanity would need it to be:
"The #OceanCirculation, which includes well-known surface and subsurface #currents and the vertical motion of ocean water, appears to have changed in a major way..."
...involved in the research into the #ClimateCrisis, as a tipping point could be reached quite soon because things are getting worse:
"The model projects the overturning circulation around #Antarctica will slow by more than 40% over the next three decades, driven almost entirely by pulses of #meltwater
Over the same period, our modelling also predicts a 20% weakening of the famous #NorthAtlantic overturning circulation which keeps #Europe’s...
Since its #Photomonday I thought I would share this little guy. He should put a smile on your face.
Chinstrap penguin, photo taken in Antarctica.
All photos I post/toot are taken by me.
Slightly overwhelmed by number of new followers today. Hello everyone!
I'm mainly using account like I did on the birdsite: sharing things I think are fun + interesting, talking about my #science, #ClimateChange, #IceSheets + future #SeaLevelRise, plus #FOSS + #OpenScience